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Narco-Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. S. Horsley
J. S. Horsley*
Affiliation:
Dorset Mental Hospital
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Narco-analysis is an eclectic technique based on the observation (6) that a combination of narcosis with psycho-therapy is quicker and sometimes more effective than the formal methods of analytical psychology. The earlier attempts of this kind were limited to the non-analytical methods of overt suggestion augmented by drugs.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 82 , Issue 339 , July 1936, pp. 416 - 422
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1936 

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